As a direct result of the Presidential election last evening, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has been completely inundated today with a multitude of active duty (and veteran) service members anxiously requesting to become MRFF clients. They all share one thing in common; fear of unbridled fundamentalist Christian oppression emanating from the new, incoming Trump Administration. Nearly 70% of them are from practitioners of the Christian faith itself.
Their fears are not without significant merit.
There is not a single fundamentalist Christian individual, nor similarly situated fundamentalist Christian extremist organization, with whom MRFF has battled mightily over the last almost 11 years which is not either (1) ideologically fully aligned with Trump and his allies on church-state separation or, (2) is already inextricably intertwined within Trump's advisory/consulting staffs and close colleagues. MRFF can surely see where all of this is heading.
Please allow me, as the leader of MRFF, to make one matter clear for ALL the world, especially our current and future MRFF clients, to know:
--For all of those individuals who might ever seek the civil rights advocacy assistance of MRFF to address religious tyranny and persecution in our nation's military, MRFF will NEVER falter in its passionate and aggressive support of the Constitutional separation of church and state in the Department of Defense, irrespective of WHOEVER is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.
--Especially Donald Trump.